http://www.idahoexaminer.com/columns/9343/...animal-approves
"Homosexual Activist: Sex with Animals O.K. As Long As Animal Approves
Posted on: June 04, 2008
We’ve often made the point that once the one-man, one-woman threshold of the definition of marriage is transgressed, there is no logical place to stop. Once the link between marriage and procreation is severed, and once we dismiss the understanding that marriage is ultimately about creating optimal nurturing environments for children, there is no rational reason not to allow anybody to have sex with or “marry” anybody – or anything – they want to.
When we make these arguments, homosexual activists always accuse of scare tactics and exaggeration.
Unfortunately for the gay lobby, one of their own heroes has now made our case for us by saying that bestiality is just fine, “as long as the animal doesn’t mind.” (Which raises the question: how exactly would an animal give consent in such a situation?)
These words come from Frank Kameny, who was integral in pressuring the American Psychiatric Association to reclassify same-sex activities as normal in 1973. He was honored just last year by the Smithsonian for those efforts, and his “Gay is Good” slogan and his protest signs are set for display in the National Museum of American History. Not exactly a man on the kook fringe of the homosexual movement.
Now he is arguing that there is no such thing as “sexual perversion,” and he is trying to find cover for sex with animals under the Declaration of Independence’s affirmation that the “Pursuit of Happiness” in an inalienable right. Of course, I might want to kill someone in my pursuit of happiness, or rob them blind, but somehow I don’t think that’s what the Founders had in mind.
Says Kameny, “If something which someone arbitrarily defines as a ‘sexual perversion’ provides happiness for consenting adult participants, then its enjoyment is enshrined in basic Americanism.” So, he says, “If bestiality with consenting animals provides happiness to some people, let them pursue their happiness.”
He adds, “Let us have more and better enjoyment of more and better sexual perversions, by whatever definition.”
Kameny was writing in defense of the sale of bestiality videos at the recent “International Mr. Leather” convention in Chicago."
